if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

(Edited 20/9/2025: In the original version, I was too focussed on device loss, and underplayed the necessity of conventional backups. The tw...

(Are you sitting comfortably? Because you will need to be...) The Online Safety Act got me thinking about VPNs and other gadgets, that got ...

I don’t have CrowdStrike on my laptop. So it never stopped working. *smug* Computer security software is generally a waste of processin...

The PR flacks for ChatGPT probably deserve a bonus. They have managed to convince a lot of people that anyone who currently has a desk job ...

It's been nearly two years since I over-thought how I do backups. Technology changes, prices change, and use cases change: reviews are a...

My trusty early 2015 Mac Air, has begun doing odd things every three or so weeks. A complete screen glitch in the middle of a YT video felt ...

I thought I'd call it "overthinking" before you did. My trusty Mac Air has been with me for nearly six years. Intel i5, 4GB R...

I got Dropbox and Evernote because I read about them on Rands in Repose . That was a long time ago in Internet Years. Something like (looks ...

Western Digital My Book Live drives can get the flashing green light of death. They boot up, start talking to themselves and don't stop,...

I have seen at least three You Tube reviews of macOS Big Sur. Which is supposed to be an operating system. 85 new features later, nothing ab...

The things I over-think! How difficult is to store your digital files: photos, books, music, movies and documents? In the old days we put...

The Highly Significant Birthday is approaching. I have booked the week before and after off. In case I get some uncontrollable emotions, or ...

Macs make a lot more sense when you think of them as designed to be stand-alone. OS X can do networking, but it doesn’t really get it . That...

I’m not an audiophile, but I want the music to sound right . What comes out of my iPhone through the Bose QC20’s noise-cancelling earphones ...

Real Developers use vi at the command line and have memorised the every single Python library. Actually, Read Developers probably don't ...

Isn’t that a question with an obvious answer? Not so much. Answering it takes us to the heart of how Python works. Write a Windows program...

I haven’t written high-security web applications that link to secure back-end databases, so I’m not talking about those. I’m talking about r...

I don’t read Slashdot as much as I used to, and so I have no idea if people still ask “What’s the best way to learn a new (programming) lang...

Every now and then I think about upgrading my Windows laptop. At the moment I have a Samsung that may be seven or eight years old. It has a ...

One of the many things a programmer needs to do is walk a directory tree and do stuff to the files and folders in it, even if it’s just list...